Friday's Breakfast Briefing: Times pushes back on Abramson pay reports

Times pushes back on Abramson pay reportThe New York Timesworked to counter a New Yorker report that stated fired Times executive editor Jill Abramson was making substantially less than male colleagues and that her hiring a lawyer to explore the issue was a factor in her termination. Times spokesperson Eileen Murphy said she was misquoted in the New Yorker article on the topic. Murphy also made clear that a Twitter account purported to be run by Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger was a fake. Sulzberger told staff in a memo on Thursday that reports about Abramson’s pay were "simply not true."

Marketing exec to run Google Glass divisionGoogle named Art.com CMO Ivy Ross as the head of its Glass unit on Thursday night. She has a "rich, non-tech" background, according to TechCrunch, with experience working for the eyewear division of Bausch & Lomb in the 1990s.

Tech sector takes on tiered InternetTechnology companies voiced opposition to the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal that would allow broadband providers to charge companies for an Internet "fast lane." Netflix, for one, said it is "not interested," while other tech giants such as Amazon also panned the fast-lane proposal.